THE PROJECT

The main idea of the DRAGON (Design Methods for Radio Architectures Going Nanoscale) project was to research and use new design methodologies and architectural innovation based on reconfigurability and state-of-the-art digital CMOS technology in order to break the barriers imposed by the lacking scaling properties of analog components.
The project will be finished by end of may and the results will be published on this website.

Contact

Project Coordinator
TECHNIKON Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Burgplatz 3a
A-9500 Villach
E-Mail: coordination@dragon-project.eu
Web: www.technikon.com

Publications & Deliverables

Public Deliverables

Project Period 2  
 
Project Period 1  
 

Publications

December 2012
 Aliasing-Free Digital Pulse-Width Modulation for Burst-Mode RF Transmitters

K. Hausmair, S. Chi, P. Singerl, C. Vogel; in Proceedings of TCAS; Decmber 2012

November 2012
 A CMOS Burst-Mode Transmitter with Watt-Level RF PA and Flexible Fully Digital Front-End

P.A.J. Nuyts, B. Francois, W. Dehaene, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of TCAS; November 2012

July 2012
 Transformer-based uneven Doherty power amplifier in 90nm CMOS for WLAN-applications

E. Kaymaksut and P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of Solid-State Circuits; IEEE; July 2012

June 2012
 A Review on Low-Complexity Structures and Algorithms for the Correction of Mismatch Errors in Time-Interleaved ADCs

C. Vogel, M. Hotz, S. Saleem, K. Hausmair, and M. Soudan; in Proceedings of NEWCAS; IEEE; June 2012

 A fully-integrated watt-level linear 900-MHz CMOS RF power amplifier for LTE-applications

B. Francois and P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of Microwave Theory and Techniques; IEEE; June 2012

September 2011
 CMOS Transformer-Based Uneven Doherty Power Amplifier for WLAN Applications

E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC; September 2011

 A Fully Integrated CMOS Power Amplifier For LTE-applications Using Clover Shaped DAT

B. Francois, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC; September 2011

August 2011
 A 48-dB DR 80-MHz BW 8.88-GS/s bandpass ΔΣ ADC for RF digitization with integrated PLL and polyphase decimation filter in 40nm CMOS

A. Bourdoux, A. Couvreur, J. Craninckx, E. Martens, J. Ryckaert, G. Van der Plas, P. Van Wesemael; in Proceedings of 2011 Symposium on VLSI Circuits; IEEE; August 2011

 Coding efficiency optimization for multilevel PWM based switched-mode RF transmitters

S. Chi, P. Singerl, C. Vogel; in IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS); August 2011

 Burst Mode Operation as an Effciency Enhancement Technique for RF power amplifiers

B. Francois, E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of URSI GASS; August 2011

 Design consideration for RF and mm-wave CMOS Power Amplifiers

P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of MRSS; August 2011

June 2011
 Efficiency and Linearity Analysis of a Burst Mode RF PA with Direct Filter Connection

B. Francois, P. Singerl, A. Wiesbauer, P. Reynaert; in International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies; June 2011

January 2011
 CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications (Chapter 13)

P. Reynaert; in Multi-Mode/Multi-Band RF Transceivers for Wireless Communications; January 2011

 Polar Modulation

P. Reynaert; in Microwave Magazine; January 2011

December 2010
 Analysis and design of series combining transformers for integrated Doherty power amplifiers

E. Kaymaksut, B. Francois, P. Reynaert; in Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC); Asia-Pacific; December 2010

 

DRAGON is co-financed by the European Commission under EU Framework Programme 7

Project Details

Project reference: 248277
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration: 40 months
Project cost: € 5.008.435
Project funding: € 3.480.000
Programme type:
Seventh Framework Programme
Programme acronym:
FP7-ICT-2009-4
Contract type: Collaborative project

 

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